On 4/13/23 13:20, nix via agora-business wrote:
I intend, with 2 Agoran Consent, to start the following tournament:
{
Name: Commune
I object to this intent. The below version folds in most of Janet's
suggestions, plus some discussion in discord:
I intend, with 2 Agoran Consent, to start the following tournament:
{
Name: Commune v1.2
Description
===========
This tournament is a self-contained game inspired by Acquire where
players build communities on a board, invest in those communities, and
gain rewards when communities they invested in are absorbed by other
communities.
Playing
=======
Any player CAN become a participant of this Tournament at any time
during its play by announcement.
Any participant CAN cease to be so by announcement. A participant of
this tournament ceases to be so when e becomes inactive in Agora. When
a person ceases to be a participant, all assets e owns defined by this
Tournament are destroyed.
The Game Master for this tournament is also known as the Surveyor.
Gaining Tokens
==============
A Token is an asset ownable by participants only. Tokens CANNOT be
transferred or destroyed except as otherwise allowed by this Tournament.
Each Token has a corresponding Symbol which can be any English letter
A-J or any integer 0-9. Tokens owned by the same player with the same
Symbol are fungible.
Each participant has a Left, Middle, and a Right Token Constructor. By
default, Token Constructors are set to construct nothing.
For each of eir Token Constructors, players CAN once a week do one of
the following by announcement:
- Begin Constructing a Token with a specified Symbol.
- Grant emself the Token that the Token Constructor is already
constructing (if not set to nothing).
The playboard
=============
The playboard is a grid of size 10 x 10. The x coordinates of the
playboard are identified by English letters A-J, and the Y coordinates
of the playboard are identified by integers [0-9].
Adjacency is defined by being at the same cordinate on one axis, and
exactly one coordinate away on the other axis.
An example visualization of the initial playboard is below:
A B C D E F G H I J
+-------------------+
0|x x x x x x x x x x|0
1|x x x x x x x x x x|1
2|x x x x x x x x x x|2
3|x x x x x x x x x x|3
4|x x x x x x x x x x|4
5|x x x x x x x x x x|5
6|x x x x x x x x x x|6
7|x x x x x x x x x x|7
8|x x x x x x x x x x|7
9|x x x x x x x x x x|9
+-------------------+
A B C D E F G H I J
Placing Tiles and Founding Communities
======================================
If a tile has not been placed on a location on the board, it is empty.
Participants CAN place a tile on an empty location by paying one letter
token and one number token that correspond to that location's
coordinates.
If a tile is placed that is not adjacent to any tiles belonging to any
communities, the player that placed it founds a new community, e is
granted 1 investment for that community, and e becomes its founder. E
CAN and SHOULD name the community after any color that starts with a
different first letter than any existing community by announcement. If a
community has not been named, the Surveyor CAN and SHALL do so by
announcement.
A player who is the founder of an existing community CANNOT place a tile
that would found a new community.
If a tile is placed adjacent to one or more tiles belonging to a single
community, that tile belongs to that community.
If a tile is placed adjacent to two or more tiles belongining to
different communities, a merger happens.
When a merger happens, if a single community involved in the merger has
more tiles than each other community, that community is the acquiring
community. If there is a tie, the tied community that gained a tile
least recently is the acquiring community. The other communities are the
acquired communities. All tiles belonging to the acquired communities
cease to belong to them and begin to belong to the acquiring community.
Each player gains X (rounded down) Accolades for each acquired community
e had an investment in, where x is the total tiles that belonged to that
community immediately before the merger divided by the total number of
investments that exist for that community and times the number of
investments for that community that player owns. The acquired
communities and all investments in all acquired community are destroyed.
Investments
===========
An Investment is an asset. Investments CANNOT be transferred or
destroyed except as otherwise allowed by this tournament. Each
Investment corresponds with a Community. The investment limit is the
current number of communities.
Once per week a participant with less investments than the investment
limit CAN grant emself an investment in any specified community.
Participants CANNOT gain an investment when they are at the investment
limit.
Trading
=======
A participant can make a Trade Offer by announcement, specifying a token
e owns, a set of symbols e wants, and, optionally, a set of participants
allowed to accept the offer (defaulting to all participants if not
specified).
If a participant ceases to have any tokens matching a Trade Off e made,
the trade offer is withdrawn. Any participant can withdraw any trade
offer e has made at any time by announcement.
If a participant is in the set of participants allowed by a
non-withdrawn and has a token matching the wanted set, e can ACCEPT that
offer by announcement and specifying the corresponding token. When e
does so, the token specified in the Offer is transferred to em, and the
token e specified is transferred to the participant that made the trade
offer.
Tracking
========
The Surveyor SHALL once a week publish an updated playboard, a list of
all participants and all eir assets defined by this tournament, and a
list of all communities and their number of tiles. E SHOULD include a
history of moves made by players as well.
Ending and Winning
==================
Accolades are a currency. Accolades CANNOT be transferred or destroyed
except as otherwise allowed by this tournament.
When more than half of the tiles belong to a single community, the
tournament ends.
If it has been 3 months since the tournament started, the tournament
ends.
Immediately before the tournament ends, the participant with the
greatest number of accolades wins.
Clean-Up
========
If any asset defined by this tournament would ever belong to Agora, a
deregistered person, a deactivated player, the L&FD, or be in abeyance,
it is instead destroyed.
}
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nix
Prime Minister, Herald
